In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects (New Politics of Autonomy)

Brings together a close reading of Marx texts with contemporary debates on the production of subjectivity and offers a critical and postcolonial perspective on the subjectivity of labour, and contemporary capitalism. Theorists have often returned to the work of Marx, to interpret and better understand global developments and current political and economic crisis. In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects combines an attempt to develop a specific reading of Marx with a set of interventions on high stakes topics in contemporary critical debates. Sandro Mezzadra offers a close reading of Marx on the ‘production of subjectivity’ as a crucial test for assessment of some of the most important Marxian concepts and of their potential for grasping the present, from the point of view of radical transformation. Table of contents -- Marx references -- Introduction to the english edition -- Preface -- Marx beyond marxism -- Production of subjectivity -- A twofold beginning -- The subject of history, the subject in history -- Living labour -- Hobbesian spectres -- Labour power -- Class (struggle) -- The political form at last discovered -- Marx in algiers -- Conclusion -- Appendix: primitive accumulation -- Bibliography.